The stack
TypeScript · React · Next.js · PHP · Laravel · PostgreSQL · Vector DBs · LLM APIs · RAG · Agents · Docker · Kubernetes · Terraform
Twenty years of turning vague ambitions into software that ships.
Paul Radford is a senior full-stack engineer based in Victoria, Australia, with more than twenty years of turning ideas into production software and, more recently, making AI work in production: LLM integrations, Model Context Protocol tooling, and agentic workflows. Throughout, he has done the unglamorous, essential work of understanding what people actually need and building it, drawing on a career that spans not just the full web stack but the businesses around it. That instinct for translation runs through everything from early custom CRM builds to enterprise platforms handling hundreds of millions in transactions.
More recently his focus has moved to AI. He has led LLM adoption across his current company, building custom Model Context Protocol integrations into its software so that customer-service, product, engineering, and DevOps teams work with less friction. It is the practical, often awkward production work between a model and the people relying on it.
That AI work sits on a deep technical foundation: rebuilt underperforming legacy systems into scalable platforms, modernised codebases serving hundreds of thousands of users, and bridged the gap between security, operations, and development teams on the infrastructure that ships a product.
Where I've worked.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer · a workforce-management SaaS
Bridging security, operations, and development, and leading LLM and Model Context Protocol adoption across the product.
Senior Software Developer · a national telco
Rebuilt CRM and external-API performance, and built the platform that supported a major merger across VoIP, NBN, and mobile services.
Lead Developer · a digital agency
Rebuilt underperforming legacy applications into scalable platforms, and led a shared-hosting-to-AWS migration backed by Elasticsearch and Redis.
A decade-plus of PHP & full-stack work
Hands-on PHP, LAMP, and front-end development across agencies and small businesses, including custom CRM and web-systems builds.
Employers and the full work history are on LinkedIn.
Building right now.
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